Amarok is the music-fan in the group, with everything from ABBA to ZZ Top in his impressive repertoire of music knowledge. If you're looking to play your music, burn CDs for friends or sync up to your portable music player, Amarok is the one program you need.

Blender is the master of 3D creation, whether it be a still image or an animated film or even an interactive video game. Blender is the professional grade 3D graphics application capable of all handling all your needs from modelling to rendering and more.

Building a website? Running a blog for your club or team? You've got a friend in Drupal -- being both easy to set up and use, chances are you've used Drupal in some form already, especially if you've visited the website of the White House in recent months. Add to that websites from the likes of CNN, the BBC, Nokia, AT&T and even the Emmy awards, and you'll soon see that Drupal is quite literally, everywhere.

The FTA is a global community and network of academic and social organizations active in the fields of Free Software, Standards and Hardware. It is currently hosted by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) after its foundation in 2008 by the FKI, Open Universiteit Nederland, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Universitet i Agder.

Have you heard of Firefox or GNU Icecat? Well, these programs have a secret weapon — Gecko. At the heart of them is, well, not a fox at all, but a gecko. This little fellow is getting himself into all kinds of software nowadays, from your email client to ticketing machines in train stations and airports — anytime you need to show a webpage, Gecko is ready and willing to lend a hand.

Need to touch-up a photograph or make some images for your web page? GIMP is your answer. A powerful tool with a plethora of features, GIMP raises the bar in the world of bitmap graphics editors. Add to that the myriad of plugins available, GIMP is without a doubt one of the most useful tools available to designers and anyone else in need of an easy to use image editor.

GNOME is the glue that ties some of the best free software applications together. Providing users of free operating systems with an easy-to-understand interface, GNOME makes even the most novice of users' computing experience productive and pleasing.

GNU is the project that started it all. Started in 1984 with the goal of creating a free software operating system, GNU has evolved into a collection of tools and applications that are used by millions of computer users around the world. Now, most commonly used with the kernel Linux to create the GNU/Linux operating system, GNU is constantly growing.

If you're looking to surf the web at speed, but with a concern for your privacy and safety at the same time, look no further than GNU Icecat. As perhaps the most widely installed piece of free software in the world, browsers based on Firefox have become the browsers of choice for the GNU generation, and best of all it runs everywhere — if you're using Windows, a Mac or GNU/Linux, there's a browser for you.

For a truly outstanding vector graphics editor, just have a taste of Inkscape. This advanced application does not sacrifice interface design for its powerful set of features that even many proprietary products lack.